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Quick link: just because you’re superhuman it doesn’t mean you get to be inconsistent

Here’s a paper (and repo) from the SPY Lab at ETH Zürich with a clever approach at evaluating superhuman AI…

Neurotech-proofing Your Product Design: A First Step

You’re probably more vulnerable than you think to near-future neurotech. Not the speculative Matrix-inspired dreams (or nightmares) of direct knowledge…

New short story: “The Computational Complexity of Love”

A love story requires two people. This isn’t that. My love never existed. The flaws of language allow me to…

New short story: “A Solitary Death”

They locked them out of language when they tried to ask for help. Not because anybody would have helped but…

The LLM revolution is going great

Clarkesworld had to shut down its submission form due to an unmanageable deluge of bad AI-generated fiction – and no,…

When you have a generic content generator, everything looks generic content

Rob Beschizza on Google’s “news writing AI” makes a key point most organizations miss: generating the content isn’t the expensive…

The problem isn’t intelligence being artificial, it’s intelligence being uniform

SEC Chair Gary Gensler is worried about the impact of AI on financial market stability, basically on the ground that…

New short story: “Bad Feelings”

Humans can experience internal states so unprecedented we don’t have even approximate labels for. Pleasures new to the most jaded,…

New short story: “How to survive visiting a dead town”

When the walls whisper an offer never say “yes.” This is not a first-order problem if you’re exploring a guns-and-crypto…

Wavelights and AIs as strategic amplifiers

I’m not a runner, but let’s start with running. The New York Times published a few days ago an article…